Part I: All internal disturbances, in and of themselves, are blind...and if you understand this one psychological/spiritual Truth, then you also understand one of the higher internal meanings of "The blind lead the blind, and both fall in the pit." Part II: Fear knows as much about freedom as a shark knows about the nature of the stars.

Part I: Any lingering negative state is a prison whose bars are created from - and held in place by - that person in it not wanting to be there. Part II: His consciousness is his kingdom in which he may either strive to claim his ruling scepter or, failing to fulfill his Celestial calling to Freedom, accept his captivity and its inherent sorrow.

If you want to measure the degree to which some thought or feeling is harmful to the development of your soul, just see the extent to which its presence separates you from remembering your Divine possibilities.

The true spiritual path is not so much about changing the kind of works that we do, as it is about realizing the need to change for whom it is that we do them.

Real peace comes when you see that neither fullness nor emptiness defines you. No more chasing or fearing -- just witnessing life as it turns, like seasons changing. Shadows aren't real, just reflections of something greater. What if the fear you run from is only your own illusion? Let go and experience the freedom beyond the mind's endless grasping.

Topics Covered: The seed in time reveals what it already is; The seed dies so that the next form of itself can live; Freedom is not a static condition; Freedom is the gradual release from beliefs about what freedom is; The journey is an endless discovery of new levels of freedom; Faith is the ability to see truth in scale; Frustration is the evidence of a misunderstood resistance...

Every human being on this planet is created to love something. The problem is that, for the vast majority of us, the part of us intended to love something was crushed right out of the gate. That part of us was crushed by the idea that "I must become something special", which requires that I must get all stirred up to do something that I have no love for. We have parts of us that demand that we...

One reason why it's so compelling to enter into the "house of thought" is because to enlarge the room you find yourself in -- or, for that matter, to build a whole new wing -- is as easy as abandoning your mind to build whatever it dreams up for itself through acts of unconscious association. unconscious, association, abandon, dreams...

Freedom from regret, hate, anxiety, and rage -- and making useless excuses for being compromised by these negative states -- begins as we stand in the light of this rescuing realization: unwanted moments, whatever their nature, do not cause the pain we find in them; rather, they serve to reveal a level of our consciousness already in pain, and looking for something to blame for it.

Learn to see and to use the presence of any psychological pain as an invitation to reprioritize your present values. Initiate this invaluable exchange by realizing the following truth, and then dare to act upon its inevitable conclusion: Whatever you may be identified with -- and, as a consequence, that you now fear losing -- could never have been the path to freedom that it promised to be.

Once we can bring enough awareness into the onset of some fear or hatred to know that the power these punishing states hold over us is no greater than our unconscious fascination with them... in that same moment we will realize a new kind of freedom... one that is not born from winning yet another fight with darkness, but with actually departing from its weary world.

ED: Hi. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein, and I'm here with bestselling inner life author, Guy Finley. Today we're going to talk about finding freedom from painful attachments. Guy, I think all of us know what it is to have a painful attachment. Throughout our lives, we develop attachments to people and to objects. Maybe we even have dreams that we're attached to, and then we find that they don't fulf...